[International]Transgender Day of Remembrance 2015 – Trans Murder Monitoring Update
The 17th International Transgender Day of Remembrance is being held on November 20th 2015: Since 1999 the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), a day to remember those trans people who have been victims of homicide, takes place every November. The TDOR raises public awareness of hate crimes against trans people, provides a space for public mourning and honours the lives of those trans people who might otherwise be forgotten. It began in the USA but the TDoR is now held in many parts of the world. In the past, events to commemorate the day were held in more than 180 cities in more than 20 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.

[Norway]Ethics Body Votes in Favor of Allowing Transgender Males to Keep Ovaries
Under a new draft law on changing one’s legal status formulated by Norway’s Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, men who are born as women and women who are born as men who wish to change their legal gender would no longer have to undergo irreversible sterilization and castration to do so, and they would also be eligible for assisted reproduction. (Ingvild Baltzersen Sund, Martin Roalsø, & Kjersti Strømmen, – Bør få skifte kjønn uten å kastrere seg [Should Get Sex Change Without Castrating Themselves], NRK (Nov. 2, 2015); Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Høringsnotat: Forslag til lov om endring av juridisk kjønn [Consultation Paper: Proposed Law on Changing Legal Status] (2015), REGJERINGEN.NO.)Norway to Drop Surgery Mandate for Sex Change

[MI, USA]Federal Judge Refuses to Dismiss Michigan Transgender ID Case
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a claim by six transgender Michiganders that a state policy governing changes of sex designation on driver’s licenses and personal identification cards violates their constitutional privacy rights. The November 16 ruling in Love v. Johnson, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 154338, 2015 WL 7180471 (E.D. Mich), by Senior U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds, finds that transgender people have a fundamental right of privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment regarding their gender identity, which right appears to be heavily burdened by the state policy.

[MS, USA]A Mississippi first: Law enforcement transgender training
It was a historic moment on the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Park campus in Long Beach Tuesday morning. For the first time ever, police officers from across the state received specialized training in dealing with a growing and more diverse population, specifically the transgender community.

[TX, USA]HERO opponents continue campaign into December run off
Opponents of Houston’s recently defeated Equal Rights Ordinance, which would have protected LGBT people and others from discrimination, hope new advertisements about the ordinance will boost turn out in December run-offs for a handful of local elections that could decide the ordinance’s fate.

[VA, USA]Doctors help more transgender teens, young adults feel like themselves for the first time
At just 16 years old, Gavin Grimm said he can feel the weight of the world on his shoulders. Born in a female body, but always identifying as a male, the transgender teenager has lived in the national media spotlight in his hometown of Gloucester, Virginia after he sued the Gloucester School system over the right to use the boys' restroom. While the principal originally granted Grimm permission to use the boys' bathroom, the county's school board later reversed the decision against receiving complaints. Grimm must now use the girls' restroom or a single-unisex facility.